HEAVEN in a Sentence

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For HEAVEN, below is one of 233 sentences:
There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEAVEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heaven
 n.  expanse of space surrounding the earth; sky; place where the sun, moon, and stars appear
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without knowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often towards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of noble young ladies.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In II
2  He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a tear gathered slowly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
4  Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
5  The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
6  A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
7  It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was within him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
8  That heaven was his conscience.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
9  With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
10  You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
11  This delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
12  There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
13  It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the light of earth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
14  Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
15  Javert was in heaven at that moment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  He believed that he and his wife would one day be together again in heaven.
2  If the heaven are too crowded, we went to hell rampant.
3  Oh, do not cry--- be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
4  Come what may, heaven won't fall.
5  Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
6  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
7  Yeah right, a little virgin, a device sent by heaven to cleanse your soul.
8  It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
9  Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
10  Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
11  The idea of heaven presupposes the existence of God.
12  I just lay in the sun for a week and did nothing - it was heaven.
13  The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
14  For heaven's sake let's keep to the point or we'll never reach any decisions.
15  The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.